Carey Price shares detail about struggle with alcoholism
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Montreal Canadiens superstar goaltender Carey Price has finally shed some light on the issues that led him to seek help and step away from hockey last season.
In an interview with The Athletic’s Arpon Basu, Price spoke about his struggle with alcoholism that drove him to enter the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program just over a year ago.
“I think after we lost in the (2021) Finals and coming close to a goal and having a surgery, and knowing I’m right on the 18th hole (of my career) here, I was not a happy person, I wasn’t being a good father. I was drinking a lot,” Price said. “I just got to a point where I was like, ‘I’m not even having fun doing this.’ Like, ‘what am I doing?’ I felt like I was getting to a point in my life where I had to make a decision.”
That point came in early October, when the 35-year-old decided he had to make a change and get help.
“It would have been Oct. 3, and waking up, I was in a pretty bad place,” he told Basu. “And I was just like, you know what? This isn’t working for me; it’s not working for my family.”
By the following Thursday on Oct. 7, Price had voluntarily admitted himself into a residential rehabilitation facility.
Basu gave Price the opportunity to avoid the topic in their interview, but the Vancouver native was eager to talk about it.
“I think most of it, I see it in sports and high stress positions, there’s a lot of pressure on athletes these days, I think even more so with social media, media attention, you’re always under the microscope,” he said. “And I think no matter how good you are at dealing with it, it’s still a weight on your mind, the pressure to perform.
“It’s not easy to do that day in, day out. Yeah, it’s a fun job, but you’re still doing a job and having to perform at a peak level every day. It’s something that you strive to do as an athlete, you enjoy doing it, but it’s not particularly easy to do, especially when things aren’t going well.”
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